Ready to Run Locomotives

All liveries are now in stock with the majority of the sound fitted version also now available and selling quickly with sound options following in a few weeks with any luck. They have currently announced six liveries, both numbered and un-numbered being available and the option of both none sound and sound equipt in each case. The versions which are currently available are marked in red.

We will also be offering our weathered service for those who wish to take advantage of this and also our numbering service for people who wish to purchase an un-numbered model to have it completed with their choice of number. The cost for this is £25.00 for a simple weathering job on the factory numbered version. The cost to number an un-numbered version including plates is £50.00 then with the option of weathering if required. We will not be offering the numbering service on the SDJR version though

It is worth mentioning that the BR versions did not have the sandbox fillers fitted and is fully validated with photographs. From 1946 the fillers were moved from the keyhole to the top of the sandboxes themselves, the keyhole itself was left empty.

LMS / BR Fowler 0-6-0 3F Jinty

Design of this class was based on rebuilds by Henry Fowler of the Midland Railway 2441 Class introduced in 1899 by Samuel Waite Johnson. These rebuilds featured a Belpaire firebox and improved cab. 422 Jinties were built between 1924 and 1931; this class was just one of the Midland designs used on an ongoing basis by the LMS.

When new, they were numbered 7100-7149, 16400-16764. Numbers 7150-7156 were added when the LMS absorbed the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway locomotives in 1930. In the 1934 LMS renumbering scheme, the locomotives were assigned the series 7260-7681. On the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 they were initially chosen as the standard shunting locomotive for the War Department, but later the more modern Hunslet "Austerity" 0-6-0ST was chosen in preference. Nevertheless, eight were dispatched to France before its fall in 1940, and only five returned in 1948. Two, 7456 and 7553, were converted to the 5ft 3in (1,600mm) Irish broad gauge in 1944 and 1945 for use on Northern Counties Committee lines in Northern Ireland, becoming the NCC Class Y, and numbered 18 and 19. A total of 412 thus entered British Railways stock in 1948, rising to 417 by the end of the year.

The first withdrawals started in 1959 and by 1964 half had been withdrawn. The final five survived until 1967, with a further one, 47445 continuing with the National Coal Board.

The London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Fowler 3F 0-6-0T represents the apex in the development of the Midland Railway's six-coupled tank engines. The first 49 locomotives did not have the distinctive keyhole sand box fillers in the tank sides, the Dapol model will of locomotives that did have the key hole. Also featured in the Dapol range is the push pull fitted version of the locomotive. A total of 9 of the class survive into preservation with 47406 providing the sound recording for those modellers who wish to have this feature. The locomotive is now affectionately referred to as a Jinty a name that appears to be one affectionately bestowed by rail enthusiasts as there is no evidence of the name being used by the men who operated these locomotives.